Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
